Welcome to my genealogy blog. Genea-Musings features genealogy research tips and techniques, genealogy news items and commentary, genealogy humor, San Diego genealogy society news, family history research and some family history stories from the keyboard of Randy Seaver (of Chula Vista CA), who thinks that Genealogy Research Is really FUN!
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Today I want to add Devier's wife to the collection, and connect them both to their daughter, Abbie Ardell "Della" Smith. Note that I had already added Della to the collection, and identified her mother as Abbie A. Vaux.

I want to add the Spouse information, so I clicked on the "Add Details" link for Abigail A. Vaux (in the right-hand area). I added her birth and death date and location, then added text to her Biography page. I did not have a thumbnail head shot of her, so I didn't upload a photo at this time. Here is Abigail A. Vaux's page:

Now I need to connect both Abigail A. Vaux and Devier Smith to their daughter, Abbie Ardell "Della" Smith. I clicked on the "Family" button and saw:

There are links on the left side to Add a parent, a spouse, a sibling, or a child. I chose to "Add a Child":

An empty set of fields opened and I started typing the child's name - I got as far as the middle of the middle name when the name of Abbie Ardell "Della" Smith appeared to the right of the text fields. The system offers suggestions for children, and presumably parents, children, and spouses if they are already in the system (presumably submitted by any registered user).

I clicked on the "Link to profile" button below the suggested person and the child was added to the profile for Abbie A. Vaux.

I went back to the "Family" page for Abigail A. Vaux and saw:

The spouse and the daughter are linked to her.

Now I need to link the daughter Abbie Ardell Smith to her father, Devier James Lamphear Smith using the same process. Here's the page for Devier making the connection:

I see that Della has two mothers now - one with details and one without. That's a result of identifying her mother as Abbie A. Vaux when I created Della's profile. Now how do I delete the second profile for Abbie A. Vaux? I could find no way to do it. There is no online Help file yet - you have to email the website.

I still don't see any way to add a Marriage date and location for a couple. Did they leave it out on purpose or by mistake?

This process seems a bit arduous to me, but it is fairly logical and straightforward once the user gets the hang of it. I chose to do this exercise by selecting "Create a New Person" rather than starting from a Child's page and selecting "Add People" from the "Family" page or "Add Parents" from the "Snapshot" page. The latter seems to be the easier path to take.

Having to enter data one person at a time works fairly well, but it does take time. This is not unlike other online family trees (e.g., Geni, FamilyLink, etc.) that do not permit GEDCOM uploads. Using this "one person at a time" method does prevent many duplicates in the system that would occur when thousands of GEDCOM files are uploaded.

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I am a native San Diegan, a graduate of San Diego State University, a retired aerospace engineer, a genealogist and a family guy.
My wife (Angel Linda) and I have two lovely daughters, and four darling grandchildren. We love to visit them and have them visit us.
Angel Linda and I love to travel to visit friends and relatives, to sightsee, to cruise or to do genealogy. Our travels have taken us all over the USA, to England, Down Under and Scandinavia.
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